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Item Details
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DEFINING JAMAICAN FICTION
MARRONAGE AND THE DISCOURSE OF SURVIVAL |
| By: |
Barbara Lalla |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0817307826 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780817307820 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 February, 1996 |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
Maroons - slaves who escaped servitude to establish their own hegemonies - are central characters in Jamaican heritage, even influencing literary character types in Jamaican fiction. This work focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature. |
| Synopsis: |
Marronage the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories- had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue to weave in and out of oral and literary tales as central and ancient characters of Jamaica's heritage. Attributes of the maroon character surface in other character types that crowd Jamaica's literary history resentful strangers, travelers, and fugitives; desperate misfits and strays; recluses, rejects, wild men, outcasts; and rebels in physical and psychological wildernesses. "Defining Jamaican Fiction" focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature, on its essential themes, and on the strategies of discourse for conveying these themes." |
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US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Alabama Press |
| Returns: |
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